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Greenwald: 'Huge' NSA Hits Still to Come

(NEWSER) – Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald—who has been diligently working the NSA and Edward Snowden beat—held a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" Q&A session yesterday. Among his answers, Greenwald claimed that there are still "huge new stories to come" from the leaks, reports Salon. "There are thousands of documents, and the majority of ones that should (and will) be published still remain," he wrote. Other highlights from the chat:

The single most shocking revelation from the leaks: "The general revelation that the objective of the NSA is literally the elimination of global privacy: ensuring that every form of human electronic communication—not just those of The Terrorists™—is collected, stored, analyzed, and monitored."

How he keeps his work secure from the NSA: "We use highly advanced means of encryption. Remember, the only ones whose op sec has proven horrible and who has lost control of huge numb